The great gate of this Ancestral Hall was also the old-fashioned kind of wooden door.
It was black, with two lion heads at the very top.
They should have been the door knockers.
Though this Ancestral Hall was small in scale, it looked exceedingly grand.
Centuries-old trees had been planted all around it.
These ancient trees stood in two rows, shading both sides of the path.
Beneath their feet was a broad road. It was not a pebble path, but paved with huge, flat slabs of stone.
There were no seams between the stones; it was almost as though it had been carved from a single massive rock.
Its surface was smooth and level.
Yet as Xu Zimo walked across it, he discovered that a formation lay beneath it.
And it was quite an impressive formation.
After he and Shen Baizhi arrived here, Xu Zimo had actually already sensed it.
The formation had begun operating.
They had not yet completely intruded into the Ancestral Hall, so the formation had merely locked onto them and had not fully activated.
But Xu Zimo was not afraid of that.
It was only that his divine soul could not penetrate the Ancestral Hall.
So he had no idea what was happening inside.
Thus, he told Shen Baizhi to push open the door.
At this moment, on the Back Mountain.
The Patrolling Heaven Clan ancestors battling the Thousand-Eyed Clan experts seemed to sense something.
Every one of their expressions changed drastically.
"Someone has broken into the Ancestral Hall," Ancestor Lianshan said grimly.
One had to know that the formation before the Ancestral Hall was called the Return to One Array.
It was the strongest formation they had arranged.
First, a place like the Ancestral Hall was where the true ancestors rested in peace.
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